# Head of Powertrain Programmes

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

The Head of Powertrain Programmes is accountable for leading the Powertrain Vehicle Line Management (VLM) team, Integration team and Series & TVM team alongside the integrated delivery of Powertrain systems and components across vehicle programmes in accordance with the McLaren Development Process (MDP).

The role translates business and programme priorities into a clear delivery strategy and is accountable for performance across technical content, quality, cost, timing and technical maturity.

Key responsibilities:

- Own the Powertrain programme delivery strategy and operating plan

- Be accountable for programme outcomes across technical content, quality, timing, cost, weight and delivery risk

- Coordinate Function Group management activities across programmes

- Define and agree Function Group project budgets

- Lead cross-functional activities with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance and Purchasing

- Ensure the Weight Management Process is followed

- Partner with Quality teams to ensure Engineering plans support corporate quality goals

- Represent the Function Group within vehicle project and programme governance

- Embed a robust Lessons Learned process throughout and at the end of each programme

- Provide clear leadership, objectives and performance expectations

- Develop organisational capability through workforce planning, succession planning, coaching, mentoring and targeted development

Requirements:

- Relevant Engineering degree or equivalent demonstrable technical and programme leadership experience

- Substantial experience leading complex automotive Powertrain programmes in an OEM or Tier One environment

- Demonstrable programme and project management capability

- Broad and deep understanding of Powertrain systems and the component delivery lifecycle

- Proven experience of financial and resource planning

- Strong working knowledge of automotive product-development process

- Proven people-leadership experience

- Ability to interpret complex programme, technical and commercial information and make balanced decisions

- Strong understanding of automotive quality, regulatory and governance requirements

- Confident use of programme-management, data-analysis and Microsoft Office tools

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year

- Benefits adaptable to lifestyle

- Generous parental leave policies

- Wellbeing initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- Powertrain systems
- programme management
- project management
- Engineering
- Purchasing
- supplier liaison
- Supplier Quality Development
- Manufacturing interfaces
- financial planning
- resource planning
- automotive product-development process
- technical specifications
- DFMEA
- DVP
- engineering release
- gateway governance
- people-leadership
- objective setting
- performance management
- coaching
- talent development
- succession planning

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